After
Adolf Hitler survived the July 1944 plot Eva Braun, the young woman who
had spent most of her life waiting for Hitler, wrote Hitler an emotional
letter, ending: 'From our first meeting I swore to follow you
anywhere - even unto death - I live only for your love.' Eva
Braun would now be with him forever. She had agreed to share Adolf
Hitler's fate.

With Germany lying in ruins after six devastating
years of war, and with defeat imminent, the Nazi dictator decided to
take his own life. But before doing so, he wanted to thank the one who'd
remained completely loyal to him until the very end. Early on the
morning on April 29, 1945, in a civil ceremony in his bunker, Hitler
married his mistress of many years, Eva Braun.

The
next day at a little after 3:30 p.m., they bit into thin glass vials of
cyanide. As he did so, Hitler also shot himself in the head with a 7.65
mm Walther pistol.

The last photo

So
History saw Hitler's prophecy fulfilled, as the handful of remaining
Nazis trooped uneasily into his underground study on April 30, 1945,
surveyed his still-warm remains slouched on a couch, with blood
trickling from the sagging lower jaw, and a gunshot wound in the right
temple and sniffed the bitter-almonds smell hanging in the air. Wrapped
in a gray army blanket, he was carried up to the shell-blasted
Chancellery garden. Gasoline was slopped over him in a reeking crater
and ignited while his staff hurriedly saluted and backed down into the
shelter.

There
is footage from May 1945 of Soviet troops searching for Adolf Hitler in
the ruins of the Reich chancellery in Berlin. In an adjacent garden,
near the emergency exit to Hitler's bunker, lie the charred bodies of
the propaganda minister, Dr Joseph Goebbels, and his wife, Magda. The
bodies of their six children were in the bunker, their poisoning ordered
by their mother.

The
Soviet troops were led to the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun and
took the bodies with them as they moved west with the Soviet's Third
Army. Each night the remains were buried, often in the woods, and then
dug up when it was time to move on. Finally, Hitler and Braun were
buried behind Smersh's East German headquarters in Magdeburg, and
remained for 25 years under a yard later owned by a waste-disposal firm.

It
was not until 1970 that the remains of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun were
dug up from Magdeburg and destroyed.

Adolf
Hitler had founded the Third Reich 12 years and three months before. His
goals - the mass murder of the Jews, the establishment of a German
Empire based on the conquest of the Soviet Union, the murder of the
original inhabitants or their reduction to slaves of the Third Reich.
His Nazi Regime led to the annihilation of more than six million Jews in
Europe.

The Third Reich would survive him for one week - the nightmare he had
unleashed was over ...